So scary, and it might happen too.

Rating: 5/10 (23 June 2015)

I don't usually click the spoiler button, but have to this time.
The story starts with some activists who break into a "Primate Research" place. They intend releasing the chimpanzees from their torture. That's plausible, but... what are they going to do next? Crate them up and fly them back to Africa? Take them home and keep them as pets? But an attack on a hen research place wouldn't look so exciting? Artistic/Movie licence I suppose.
Then Jim wakes up in an empty hospital. Nearly everyone else in the whole country has been infected by the Rage virus that the chimps had. Jim meets Selena and Mark who have some fancy petrol bombs all set up. Very handy when the "infected" attack. It might seem odd that the infected only seem to attack uninfected people? Oh, but if they attack each other, it would all be over in a few days. Another odd feature is that some of the 'infected' can run like Olympic sprinters, others can barely walk.
The infected can sniff out uninfected like mosquitoes can find me? So, when Jim watches a tape of his parents, the glow from the screen is seen outside. In the ensuing attack, Mark gets infected, so Selena has to kill him within 20 seconds. Next, they meet another survivor Frank and his teenage daughter Hannah. Who needs who most? They need each other. They hear a recorded message on a wind-up radio from an army group offering refuge, but it is hundreds of miles away.
Frank has a London taxi, so off they go. It seems strange that the only weapons they take with them are baseball bats? And then they find an open, undamaged supermarket. Unlikely since the norms of society have crumbled and 'infected' people cannot do the normal things that make civilization work. It would have been stripped ages ago? Will we go through this tunnel? Dumb idea, there are dozens of bridges over the Thames. The taxi charges through abandoned cars without being damaged? Except for getting a flat tyre. They stop to change the wheel. I wouldn't, I'd go like hell and get out of the tunnel first.
Manchester has been burned to the ground - no fire crews to put it out. Scary.
At the blockade where the army is supposed to be, Frank gets infected too, so that leaves Jim, Selena and Hannah who now meet the army guys. A Major and eight men. The men are depicted as ill-disciplined, uncouth and stupid. Unreal, but when one threatens to kill himself because the future is hopeless, the Major promises to get women for them all. Ridiculous. The suicide rate in armed forces is unfortunately quite high in normal times, and no one would suggest 'women' would solve that, although the Japanese did provide "comfort women" for their doomed soldiers. Fat- lot of good that did.
Jim of course, sets out to defend the honour of Selena and Hannah, so the soldiers take him outside to kill him, but he escapes and with some help from infected survivors from the city, kills them all.
They get in the taxi and crash through the gates. Fine, if the gate is made of polystyrene? Artistic licence again.
We were told earlier on that Paris and New York also had infections, but Jim sees a con-trail in the sky that suggests that there is hope after all, so they make a huge banner that the planes will see.
And they all lived happily ever after? In spite of the flaws, it's quite a gripping story, and well acted, but there is not one especially good scene and not much in the way of memorable dialogue, so I've only given it a 5.